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Melissa Hayden

Melissa Hayden, principal dancer of the New York City Ballet from 1955 to 1973, was born on this date in 1923 in Toronto. Source.

Dolores Claman

Dolores Claman (1927-2021) wrote the theme music used by Hockey Night in Canada from 1968 to 2002, often referred to as Canada's second national anthem, and "A Place to Stand," the official song of Ontario's 1967 centennial, which, if it hadn't been used for that, would have made a great orchestral theme for a big screen Hollywood western. Source.

Some People Who Lived From 1867 to 1945

Self-portrait by Käthe Kollwitz. Source.

Erland Koch, marksman (January 3rd, 1867 to April 29th, 1945)

Vikenty Vikentyevich Veresaev, writer (January 16th, 1867 to June 3rd, 1945)

Herbert Bedford, composer (January 23rd, 1867 to March 13th, 1945)

Eldridge R. Johnson, inventor (February 6th, 1867 to November 14th, 1945)

Charles W. Bryan, politician (February 10th, 1867 to March 4th, 1945)

Federico Patetta, historian (February 16th, 1867 to October 28th, 1945)

Abel Faivre, illustrator (March 30th, 1867 to August 13th, 1945)

Joseph Bidez, philologist (April 9th, 1867 to September 20th, 1945)

William de Lacy Aherne, architect (April 17th, 1867 to December 4th, 1945)

Giuseppe Alessi, chess master (May 15th, 1867 to March 18th, 1945)

Eoin MacNeill, politician (May 15th, 1867 to October 15th, 1945)

Jean-Baptiste Lemire, composer (June 8th, 1867 to March 2nd, 1945)

Charles Fabry, physicist (June 11th, 1867 to December 11th, 1945)

Käthe Kollwitz, artist (July 8th, 1867 to April 22nd,1945)

Karl Aschoff, pharmacist (July 12th, 1867 to July 19th, 1945)

Richard Leutheußer, politician (July 16th, 1867 to April 12th, 1945)

Salvatore Contarini, diplomat (August 6th, 1867 to September 17th, 1945)

Shin Hirayama, astronomer (September 9th, 1867 to June 2nd, 1945)

Maud Diver, writer (September 9th, 1867 to October 14th, 1945)

Herbert L. Clarke, cornetist (September 12th, 1867 to January 30th, 1945)

Anna Paues, philologist (September 26th, 1867 to September 2nd, 1945)

Anna Dodge, actress (October 18th, 1867 to May 4th, 1945)

Marie Lacoste Gérin-Lajoie, politician (October 19th, 1867 to November 1st, 1945)

Gian Carlo Messa, jurist (October 29th, 1867 to September 16th, 1945)

Richard Karutz, ethnologist (November 2nd, 1867 to February 10th, 1945)

Heinrich Bulle, archaeologist (December 11th, 1867 to April 6th, 1945)

Anna Schieber, writer (December 12th, 1867, to August 7th, 1945)

John Livingston Lowes, literary critic (December 20th, 1867 to August 15th, 1945)

Bessie Watson

Nine-year-old bagpiper Bessie Watson piped for votes for women during the Women's Social and Political Union demonstration in Edinburgh on this date in 1909. Despite having had tuberculosis as a child she lived to be 91 and continued to pipe into her eighties. Source.

Sue Marsden

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Astrid Kirchherr, 1938-2020

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Madge Macbeth

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Bolaji Badejo

Bolaji Badejo, who played the xenomorph in the original Alien movie, died of sickle cell anemia on this date 25 years ago.

When I Die and Go to Heaven ...

I want to sit between these two people: Arnaldo Momigliano and Betty Radice. Douglas

Hanako Muraoka

NHK is currently airing a million-part morning drama about the life of Hanako Muraoka, the Japanese translator of Anne of Green Gables, entitled Hanako To An (Hanako and Anne). That's Hanako in the middle. Picture source. NHK site.